From the NY Post:
Ken Griffin plans to build the most expensive home on Earth — a $1B mega-estate
Palm Beach, Florida, a playground for the rich and famous, is no stranger to opulence.
But it seems that billionaire hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin is taking luxury living to a whole new level.
Griffin, already a prominent figure in the seaside town and a Florida native, is turning heads with his ambitious plans to create the most expensive home not just in America — but on the planet.
The enigmatic financier, known for his vast wealth and astute investments as founder and CEO of the once Chicago-based Citadel, now Miami, has made headlines by acquiring more than 20 acres of prime Palm Beach real estate.
What’s even more astounding is that Griffin, 55, has obliterated the existing homes on this sprawling property, with intentions to spend between a staggering $150 to $400 million on constructing a mega-estate that will be worth an estimated $1 billion upon completion.
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Over the years, he has already assembled approximately 27 acres of beachfront real estate, which includes a couple of parcels on the Intracoastal Waterway.
This colossal property is situated just a quarter mile south of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, a stretch of South Ocean Boulevard renowned among locals as “Billionaires’ Row.”
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As one industry insider pointed out, “If he spent nearly half a billion to buy up acres of land in Palm Beach over the last decade and is expected to spend $150 million more to build an entirely new home, that piece of property is worth at least $1 billion now.”
Frist
Does the Ten hit 500 today?
What constitutes a great engineered recording? How does one decipher or choose the best one of the nominees? Why are some even nominated? If my ear can detect a smooth combination of bass and drums laying the foundation for vocals and a lead instrument, then that’s all I know. For example, when I hear the guitar work on a song like “We’re Not Gonna Take It” from Twisted Sister, it sounds like a $49 guitar played in a closet on a battery-operated practice amp. Not that JJ French is up there with the best but you get the point. My ear is not telling me this is not top notch in sound. Compare that to the opening of “Mississippi Queen” and the difference is vast.
Should read: “My ear is telling me this is NOT top notch in sound.”
Un caffè, per favore. Grazie!
Does the Ten hit 500 today?
https://tinyurl.com/m9p6ujd3
What constitutes a great engineered recording?
IMHO – two parts. Musicality first – wonderful engineering of mediocre content makes for a fun audiophile sampler CD, but not something you’d ever listen to otherwise.
Second – Attention to detail, quality of recording, fidelity of sound. Hard to describe, but I think well engineered records have a bit of balance, restraint. It’s not about trying to blow everyone away with dynamic range and kick drums that punch you in the face.
I think a good example is Tom Petty’s Wildflowers, been in my rotation lately. Yeah, it won the engineering grammy, but it’s also the kind of song you can play on repeat a few times. Throwing on a set of headphones and it’s an entirely new experience. You probably hear new things every time you play it.
Rubin totally channeled Phil Spector in the most amazingly restrained way. Feel like he had Pet Sounds on his mind.
I bet this guy is in favor of WFH
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12648155/Terrifying-moment-South-African-motorist-runs-child-carjacker-aimed-gun-four-months-crooks-attacked-vehicle-axes-stretch-road.html
Almost at 5
Grim,
Good analysis.
Eh, Hi Fi is all but dead these days, does it even matter?
Shitty little Bluetooth speakers, god awful wireless earbuds, low-res streaming everything – it’s irrelevant outside of a handful of vinyl records that are pressed every year to satisfy a small handful of nerds.
A glimmer of hope here is that the hifi scene in China is absolutely on fire – and the gear coming out of there is really impressive.
Yield Day High 4.983%
“The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit 8% Wednesday morning, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is the highest level since mid-2000.”
I remember Ric Ocasek of The Cars saying they made sure the album sounded good on a regular car stereo. They didn’t win any awards for engineering, but did sell a lot of music and got radio play.
I agree with Grim about audio engineering. My priorities are Clarity, positioning of acoustic space, and sometimes creativity is required. Nowadays I think a lot of this is done digitally and virtually. But in the old days there were a lot more “hacks” done physically with mics and placements.
HMB, it’s theft that is causing this, just like the way America is headed.
https://youtu.be/Iiny1GrfhYM?t=1256
Well,
You don’t expect Americans to make anything anymore do you? Guess we need to bring back the Maxell guy in the chair with his windswept hair.
It’s pretty simple, America has become the country of “good enough.” Only boomers can afford this high priced crap that reminds them of the old days, before they shipped everyone’s job overseas in their quest for greed.
A glimmer of hope here is that the hifi scene in China is absolutely on fire – and the gear coming out of there is really impressive.
The most accurate sign showing that your country is in a downfall is a very close look at your president.
Seriously, look at the face of who is currently running for government. Study that face, look it in the eyes, watch how it walks and talks. Just observe.
That will help you figure out your trajectory.
When I picked up guitar, I learned quickly that analog effects and tube amplifiers were far superior to anything digital on all levels for sound quality.
Boomers have no moral compass. Balance in their 401-k is their only meaningful measure of life.
Phoenix says:
October 19, 2023 at 8:27 am
Well,
You don’t expect Americans to make anything anymore do you? Guess we need to bring back the Maxell guy in the chair with his windswept hair.
It’s pretty simple, America has become the country of “good enough.” Only boomers can afford this high priced crap that reminds them of the old days, before they shipped everyone’s job overseas in their quest for greed.
A glimmer of hope here is that the hifi scene in China is absolutely on fire – and the gear coming out of there is really impressive.
A hacker has released millions of additional genetic profiles stolen from DNA testing firm 23andMe, claiming that the leaked dataset includes members of the Royal Family and other notables with British ancestry.
The hacker using the moniker ‘Golem’ on Tuesday published the genetic profiles on the cybercrime marketplace BreachForums, citing anger at Israel and its supporters as a motive for the leak.
The dataset includes four million 23andMe customers who have ancestry in Great Britain, Golem claimed, saying the genetic profiles include ‘wealthy families serving Zionism’ and ‘the wealthiest people living in the US and Western Europe.’
‘There are samples from hundreds of families, including the royal family, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and more,’ the hacker added, referring to the wealthy European and American families, respectively.
It follows prior leaks targeting 23andMe customers of Jewish and Chinese descent, and the company told DailyMail that it was aware of the hacker’s latest post and is reviewing the data to determine whether it is legitimate. A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
VSG,
No, they don’t.
But just like the amplifiers that give us that wonderful nostalgic sound, just wait till boomer dies and their offspring goes into full Karen mode.
The next group of old goats will most likely be the worst old goats there are, as the money and narcissism concentrate, and the government becomes even more militant towards those it is supposed to serve.
Inspired by the possibilities of digital technology and the audacious rhythms of Brazil and Africa, Peter Gabriel invigorated pop music with 1986’s So.
What ended the whole “HiFi” era was Napster.
Americans are cheap. They liked free. Free is good. Buy one, get one free, it excites them.
Boomer had Napster. Boomer didn’t have to pay the artist. Boomer is cheap. Boomer says , “hey, its lower quality, but I am more greedy, cheap, and theft driven, so why pay for music, I will just adjust my taste to mp3 quality. It’s good enough for me. I can put it on my Chinese manufactured Apple product and I am good to go.”
Boomers liked to steal. It made them happy. But with it went quality, and now, as time goes on, boomer is nostalgic from that time period, and has stolen so much and feels so wealthy that they are willing to pay to go “old school.”
Bet none of them will send a check for all of the music they stole, however. Well, maybe one somewhere.
LOL
https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/1714944718205755483
I like the idea of genetic testing to forewarn, but sending my DNA to a corporate greed machine that will never ever destroy it, just didn’t seem like a good idea.
What happened to these results being hashed and not identifiable?
What happened to these results being hashed and not identifiable?
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Boomers have no moral compass. Balance in their 401-k is their only meaningful measure of life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5LvZFGuDyw
Btw, I sat on the side of Trower’s Marshall stacks ON STAGE at the “old” Stone Pony and watched him do this song.
Trower did this song too… as well as the whole “Bridge of Sighs” album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr1BvrpV4U
Also, as I sat on the stage, I had a few tall balls lined up, tried to give him one, he politely declined but I did get his guitar pick after the show.
Get that BLT album (or Youtube it) and listen to it. This is Boomer music but even my kid said Boomer music is way better than the current music. ;)
Tall boys! LOL.
Jeffrey Gundlach speaking at Grant’s Interest Rate Observer conference this month. Presenting on the usual suspects but the spin the wheel Yellen and JayPow slides are fun. Lots of juicy charts.
h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RLfKaxH-Og&t=134s
I have no problem with free.
But every good and service nowadays is very low quality. Everything sucks even if you pay top dollar.
Look at flying, it’s just awful. I always pay business class and the experience is terrible because old farts only care about paying the cheapest price. Grown men wearing gravy stained Trump tshirts boarding wearing sandals with nasty toenails. Their only concern is a cheap ticket.
Phoenix says:
October 19, 2023 at 9:04 am
What ended the whole “HiFi” era was Napster.
Americans are cheap. They liked free. Free is good. Buy one, get one free, it excites them.
Boomer had Napster. Boomer didn’t have to pay the artist. Boomer is cheap. Boomer says , “hey, its lower quality, but I am more greedy, cheap, and theft driven, so why pay for music, I will just adjust my taste to mp3 quality. It’s good enough for me. I can put it on my Chinese manufactured Apple product and I am good to go.”
Boomers liked to steal. It made them happy. But with it went quality, and now, as time goes on, boomer is nostalgic from that time period, and has stolen so much and feels so wealthy that they are willing to pay to go “old school.”
Bet none of them will send a check for all of the music they stole, however. Well, maybe one somewhere.
Grown men wearing gravy stained Trump tshirts…
And big bellies… don’t forget the bellies! And the occasional comb over! The chicks love it!
I’m upgrading the Gundlach link to a watch. It’s good.
On the hi-fi thread. I’m one of those fools who still cares. I really enjoyed the sound engineering conversation too. I am not one of those nerdy MacIntosh amp, outboard D/A converter audiophiles, though I can’t listen to music, say on a boom box or even an Alexa speaker. My baseline is a Yamaha amp with speakers that start around $500 each. My brother has one of those 10K systems. His speakers are carved out of a single piece of wood for example. And the legs are tiny spikes to avoid any unwanted vibrations. That’s insanity. Almost as crazy as those who had the Nakamichi DRAGON, which rotated the cassette tape rather than the read/write heads, for more precise alignment. Heck, you were listening to a cassette. They suck for audio quality in the first place. If I’m not mistaken, they had one in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
My front Speakers are the last of the good Acoustic Research towers (AR9s) when they were owned by Teledyne. The center speaker is a 2000 AR (which is adequate). My rears are the absolute best unobtrusive small speakers you can buy. They are British Monitor Audio Radius 90s. My subwoofer is a Definitive Tech P400. The sound staging using just my ARs is amazing. When I watch movies with 5.1 surround, it’s actually more realistic than in all but the best movie theaters. The surrounds are so sensitive, it’s simply spooky when you hear voices from all around you. Even when I watch an NFL game, I can hear conversations, often photographers, on the sidelines. They always come out the rears, for the NFL separates the play-by-play announcers to heavy front and center. This is what creates that cavernous crowd sound that the NFL has mastered.
Occasionally, I am stuck watching a program with my supposedly highly rated, built-in, Sony TV speakers. The lack of sound staging is so dramatic that I actually have trouble listening to it. I would compare it to listening to music on your average clock radio.
What has always blown my mind is the importance of sound quality when watching a film. I often have trouble “getting into” films. When I watch at home on my system, it just absolutely sucks you in. Especially the dramatic differences between loud and soft scenes. I have a feeling that you kind of have to experience it to understand. Nothing wireless is good btw.
Any of you guys see the film Emergency! from last year? Really fun film.
Only thing I remember about ‘Got My Mind Set on You’ is the slinky blonde turning and twisting the video machine in the music video, lol.
“Left add a picture of Ollie North and Colin Powell and you’ll have the NeoCon Mt Rushmore”
Yeah, not understanding that…my dislike of establishment politics (or most things for that matter) is pretty well documented….
Juice,
This is where we need Eddie Ray (Nom) back in here. My understanding is that for newly minted Lawyers, DC court of Appeals is the easiest piece of Vellum you can get to stick on a wall. I recall an RE closing where their lawyer had that front and center on their wall. The fact that Donnies lawyers, don’t, shows how low down the barrel he’s scraping.
Sidney Powell pleads guilty
No surprise there.
My rears are the absolute best unobtrusive small speakers you can buy. They are British Monitor Audio Radius 90s.
Funny story, ran into the Monitor Audio design team years back in a HiFi shop in Krakow Poland. American audiophile couldn’t help but butt in to that conversation. We ended up spending the afternoon listening to Dire Straits – which was their in-house baseline.
I think with engineering, as NoOne says, sonic space, creativity and clarity is the key. Nirvana, Lithium came on the radio this morning. That is a song that annoys me. Starts quiet with a beautiful warm vocal, bass and guitar and this big noisy drum kit comes in beside it. Turns out they put the kit in the middle of the room instead of a booth. For me that was a big mistake. Digital remastering has cleaned up a lot of things like that.
I put the big change with the Walkman. Having your own portable sound stage was changed things and brought questionable decisions to the fore. I think of the vibraslap on Ozzys Crazy train that pans left and right. A cheesy effect that you get away with in a room, but is cringeworthy with headphones. Add in the rise of the CD and the removal of the noise floor and the forgiveness you could hide behind with Analog was gone.
Here is a great video of how they went through the process with Nevermind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGvAjp1-Cy0
Wfh is dead like I predicted would happen at its peak. Bold call and nailed it.
Good morning, CIOs. Video game maker Roblox became the latest Silicon Valley company to modify its work-from-home policy. On Tuesday the company gave most of its employees an ultimatum: start working in its San Mateo, Calif. office three days a week or take a severance package.
The tough stance comes as company leaders get increasingly desperate to fill offices that emptied during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Alyssa Lukpat and Chip Cutter report. They say their companies are more innovative and collaborative when employees are in the office. Many workers don’t agree.
Roblox CEO David Baszucki in a blog post said that employees have until January to decide if they want to take a severance package or start coming to the office from Tuesday to Thursday. The company, which has more than 2,000 employees, said it would pay relocation costs.
Apple homepods and airpod pros do it for me. Good sound.
Grim saw my home theater in NJ one time. Not really high end but good price to performance using lower-upper end equipment.
Two PSB Stratus Silveri speakers from way back, still good. Two PSB bipole Image S5 surrounds, still good. Had a PSB Stratus center but it blew a tweeter, replaced it with a Monoprice Monolith Center speaker. Use a Marantz receiver with dual sub output and Audyssey processing with two SVS PB-2000 subs, and an external multichannel amp.
In FL, I just use the Sennheiser Ambeo soundbar with a SVS subwoofer. Though big for a soundbar it can sit on a ledge above the TV, and still sounds pretty good without destroying the look of the room.
For critical listening, I use Amazon Music with the UltraHD upgrade, depending on which office is either feeding at my home office my RME ADI-2 DAC DAC/headphone amp where I use its parametric equalization feature to dial in my Sennheiser HD800 headphones. Or at my office office the IFI MicroDSD dac/amp feeding Beyerdynamic DT770 pro headphones (closed back to keep out office noise).
Woman Who Used Bullhorn to Rally Rioters on Jan. 6 Gets Nearly 5 Years
The Pennsylvania woman also smashed a window with an ice ax and a cardboard tube, prosecutors said. She expressed regret for her conduct, saying: “I have failed everyone around me.”
Federal prosecutors said the woman, Rachel Powell, 43, of Sandy Lake, Pa., was “an active and enthusiastic participant” in the attack on the Capitol after she attended President Donald J. Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally earlier that day.
Ms. Powell said in a phone interview on Tuesday that she had told the court that she was “deeply ashamed” of her behavior on Jan. 6. She said politics had taken “a very dark turn” and that she had succumbed to that climate and that “it led to disaster.”
“I have failed everyone around me,” she said.
Phoenix says:
October 19, 2023 at 11:30 am
Sidney Powell pleads guilty
No surprise there.
10 year kisses 4.99% as Powell speaks,
Lib,
That sounds awesome. I leaned more British old school when I did my set-up 25 years ago. NAD amp and pre-amp with vintage Wharfedale speakers. Unfortunately 10 years of non-usage. I just don’t have a man-cave space available. My house was set-up with ceiling speakers all over downstairs. Guy was electrician and gut re-do in 2004. I have small Sony amp running sound all over now. I like it over soundbars etc. One day, back to my CDs and British set-up.
On audio engineering, the guy to know is Rudy Van Gelder who revolutionized recording and audio techniques during 1950s. He started in Teaneck and eventually opened RVG studios in Englewood Cliffs which . The clarity and warmth of his jazz recordings are unparalleled. Most audiophiles at stores (back in day) had a Coltrane or Mingus RVG on hand. All (and I basically all) the iconic jazz recording of 50s/60s/70s went through him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/arts/music/rudy-van-gelder-studio.html
No One,
I forgot to add to the part about my brother and his 10K system. I catch him listening with his Sennheiser headphones most of the time.
which functioned until his death 7 years ago, I meant.
By,
NJ (and Boston) was really in the forefront of audio tech. When I drove forklifts to pay for college in East Brunswick, ADCOM was located next door. I forgot all of the others, but there used to be a heck of a lot of high-end manufacturers of this stuff in NJ. What happened???
China, of course. I thought my older bro was god in the mid-80s. He worked all summer at 16 to afford Onkyo receiver and Boston Acoustics speakers. I was 11 and would read audio magazines he had. That was the glorious time for high end stuff, well we thought high end but beer budget really. We were kings listening to Rush Moving Pictures. Now, I have USB in car with 100 mp3 songs and my sons can’t hear the “Ho Ho Ho, Hee, Hee, Hee, Hah, Hah, Hah” part of I am the Walrus. So much lost for convenience.
I lived in Montville and used to hit the Denon factory sale every year.
Libturd,
First Japan happened, then China happened.
And young people aren’t as much into “audiophile” stuff.
To the extent they are, their interest seems to be headphones-related.
Maybe because they are older before they can afford to move out of their parents houses compared to decades ago?
Also the shift from record player to personal audio device took music out of the living room.
I think Denon produced in NJ too.
And I agree with the Napster premise. I can hardly listen to XM due to the lack of quality. It doesn’t bother the kids much at all.
Easy access to music is better than it ever was in the old days, but I think people may have treasured their favorite owned music more than they do their rented music now.
In the 70s it was mostly radio, then you bought a few of your favorites on record/8 track/cassette.
80s was cassettes and walkman. I collected a case full of my favorites.
By 90s it was about CDs, and I collected towers of them as I had a job by then and probably spent $100 per month or more collecting new and used during my prime acquisition years, mostly from a local independent shop.
After 2000 and being married I probably spent more on DVDs and Blu Ray movies rather than CDs. I mostly prefer to listen to music alone.
About 5 years ago my company shut off all external data storage devices for security reasons. So my CD collection became inaccessible during work, so had to flip to streaming audio which they do allow.
But I used to treasure my physical disc collection more than the music I’m now just renting – enjoying the artwork, production notes, etc.
My deceased father worked in the music industry for all his life. First as a small time radio DJ, then in recording studios, then as an agent, and then for many decades running a record warehouse that ultimately included cassettes and CD, distributing to the many independent music retailers that used to exist. I wouldn’t say those old days were better, but were definitely different. He sold the business for a modest sum and retired before it all disappeared entirely, sometime in the late 90s.
XM, yes, it’s compressed pretty badly. Audibly so. Worse than most mp3s.
But I mostly listen to Bloomberg and PGA radio or BBC News on XM, rather than music, so it’s not such a big deal to me.
In theory I could probably stream most of that, but it would take more effort in the car.
And young people aren’t as much into “audiophile” stuff.
Well, today’s mainstream music sucks so bad, what’s the point of even trying to produce quality sound? Today’s youth would rather touch glass and giggle over tik-tok nonsense.
I used to carry a DSLR everywhere and take amazing shots. But there were many shots I would miss, or spook the subject with the rig. Now, I just take good enough pictures with an iPhone but I have every shot I want to take.
I’ve adopted the same philosophy for home and A/V audio. My house is blanketed with Sonos speakers, all inconspicuously placed and wireless. Now when I need to take a leak, I stand up and say “Sonos also play this in the bathroom” and my AV or music starts to seamlessly in synch in the toilet. Like the photography analogy, I enjoy consuming more music, even if I don’t have a dedicated audio room to enjoy it.
I wish there was a piece of hardware I could wear, like a clip on, that would know what room I’m in and follow me from room to room. Then again, I could just blast it in all rooms.
Apple Airtag and some moderate scripting.
We have one in the D’s backpack so we can figure out when he’ll get home from school.
Denon was the “client” for my Rutgers MBA “inter-function group” in 1992. We held focus groups and worked with prod dev to present “future” ideas for them. We had this proposal for an “infinite” jukebox in the “air” that you could download any song you wanted. I wonder what happened to that…
2:14 reminds me of my big meeting during my time in internet consulting. Potential client was BMG when they bought the Columbia Record Club…complete waste of time. BMG bankrupted Columbus soon after.
How Will States Pay for Roads When Gas Taxes Evaporate?
As electric vehicles become more popular and gasoline sales decline, governments are struggling to find new ways to fund infrastructure.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/how-will-states-pay-for-roads-when-gas-taxes-evaporate-bec312e0?mod=hp_lead_pos11
What a silly question, you’ll pay a large tax with your annual electric vehicle registration, NJ will require you to come to the DMV to read your odometer.
Agreed. Some states already have EV surcharges which are levied at registration.
I think college students (won’t mention names) ruined the record (tape) clubs. Everyone I knew would order those 12 albums for 1 penny under a different name than their own and would have them sent to their dorms under a non-existing room number. The packages wouldn’t fit in a mailbox anyway so they were left on the receptionists desk to be swooped up anonymously by the orderer. There were few people on-campus, not doing it.
Personally, the cheap cassette tape they used when manufacturing those albums (self duplicating to eliminate fulfillment) would get chewed up by like the tenth playing. Especially if you left your cassettes in the car.
I miss 8-track tapes.
I miss 8-track tapes.
Okay, boomer! ;)
Haha, I remember retro-fitting one of those below the dash 8-track players in my first car, a beat up 68 Mustang, running the wires back to new speakers I installed in the factory cutouts under the back shelf. Good times.
Led Zeppelin, forget which album think it was ‘IV’, was a pink cartridge lol. Think it was one of the many that came anonymously as well for a penny….
The rational thing to do to pay for roads is charge people who are using the roads.
It’s technologically cheap and easy to now put geo trackers on all vehicles. Could charge by model vehicle weight which correlates to road wear (sorry EVs) and freight/commercial could be charged more.
Ideally this change would be coupled with the privatization (via open bidding on concessions) of road provision and operation to improve both service and cost. Tollgates and their congestion could then be eliminated as well.
I’m rocking an old Onkyo with a “quartz” tuner. I like radio!
I’m a JBL fan when it comes to speakers.
The big bucks items are the handmade tube Amps I own from Friedman and Matchless. A Buxom Betty and Independence model respectively. Both are works of art and sound phenomenal with a decent guitar. They’re also both handmade in Los Angeles.
I’m rocking a wonder boom I got on sale at Best Buy .
The best thing about 8 tracks is that you could skip around faster than cassettes.
That was pretty much the only good thing about them. Bigger space for labels.
I once spent a summer break working in my dad’s side business, a record pressing plant in GA. Back then (around 1982-84 or so) the only buyers for a small press run were religious/gospel. I think one of them included “Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life.” I remember unloading a trailer full of reject records they bought to melt for new records. Had to cut out the center of each one. Looked kind of like tar when melted. I think they gave me a chance on the shrink wrap plastic machine but I didn’t do well on that, every time you sealed it you dropped a red hot wire on plastic releasing that scent of burning plastic, and if you didn’t drop and lift it right, it made a mess, so they soon sent me back to the warehouse to sort record returns (unsold records get punched and sent back to the record labels or something). At the end of my few weeks of work I had enough to buy some albums at wholesale cost. All the Devo cassettes out, Duran Duran, Men at Work, probably some Police Albums. My dad was probably disappointed I didn’t buy any country music or stuff like Rolling Stones or The Beatles. I think the first summer I spent my money on a Koss portable cassette deck and Porta Pro headphones, which they stocked. (Didn’t stock Sony Walkman).
Since today was all about music, here’s a cynical but thorough take on the recent trend of creators selling copyrights and masters to deep pocketed investment players.
https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2023/09/19/katy-perry-sells-catalog/
Grim….mod!?
Gen Z may be left permanently psychologically scarred by high inflation, per Bloomberg.